Thursday 10/22/15 Assignments (2)

Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks for loving and forgiving me. Thanks for watching over our family, friends, and animals. Thanks for watching over all our Christian brothers and sisters who use this line. I love You, Lord, and I really appreciate all You do for me, for us, and I really appreciate the assignments that You have given to me and to us, and to Carry The Light Ministries over the years. Please help me not to let You down and be a slacker when it comes to working for You. Please help me with the daily messages and may they always be what You want done and that they are pleasing to You. Please help me now with that assignment and then please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I give praise and thanks and then ask these prayers. Please be with those we listed yesterday who had fallen, and please add Linda to that list. Lord, please send help our way to break up some wood in the dog yard. Thanking You for another beautiful day and may I walk it with You. Thanks for trusting me to get the assignments done for You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

My dear brothers and sisters, please be careful. So many folks are having bad falls. Please watch your step. Talk to God often about it. Did you figure out what your assignment is from God? The one we all have. Well, read on today and I will tell you about it as we go to the message, Assignments.

Thursday: October 22, 2015: Assignments (Day Two)

Genesis 6:14 - "So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will  come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as for you and for them." (NIV)

Genesis 6:22 - Noah did everything just as God commanded him. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, what an assignment God gave to Noah and his family. I want you to think of just how big that would be. Think of how others would see them working and would laugh at them. While typing this I got to thinking about  how many animals that Dolores and I have rescued over the years and just how many animals we had even before I met Dolores. I always had animals and I love them dearly. Today I got to thinking that Noah indeed had the very first, the very first animal rescue ever. Think about it, Noah brought on board every kind of animal that we have today. The only living creature not on the ark were, well, why not you tell me? Yes, there were some living creatures not permitted on that old ark. What were they? The skunk maybe? This is not a trick question. There was one other time recorded in the Bible where an ark was used to save someone. I will tell you this one. It is found in

Exodus 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. (NIV)

A far cry from the big ark of Noah, this tiny ark was made to keep baby Moses safe. Okay, back to our assignments. Noah would have needed a lot of room to make the ark. Think of it. About the length of one and a half football fields, and about one and a half times wider, and this big boat would need to float. Just think about the weight of the ark, plus the weight of all the critters. Two elephants and two hippos would weigh a lot, but all the others. And all the food needed to feed all of them. I am getting overwhelmed just talking about it. How would we do it today if we were asked by God, you know, given that assignment that Noah was given? No need to worry, because God made a covenant to never kill off the world again! BY FLOODING IT!! Every now and then God needs to remind Himself not to flood the earth. The reminder is of course the pretty rainbow we see in the sky after a rain.

So what is that assignment that has been given to everyone to carry out? I can tell you now that our ministry name came from this assignment. Here is one place it came from.

Mark 16:15 - He said to them, "Go into all the world land preach the good news to all creation." (NIV)

It is also in scriptures that Jesus is the Light of the World, and as we just were forming our singing group back in 1993 we were also doing a Bible study under the guidance of Pastor Karen Engle Layman at Hope United Methodist Church and the subject was the book of Mark. And just so all of you know, the food pantry part of Carry The Light Ministries is closed. Other parts of the ministry are not NOR WILL THEY EVER BE CLOSED. We feel this is just one of our assignments from God and we will Carry out those assignments under that name as long as God wants it done. AMEN.

All of you have that same assignment from God to carry His message of love and salvation to the ends of the earth, which includes your neighbors across the street and next door to where you live and it also includes your own family. I am sure that God has also given you other assignments. He has also given assignments to others in the Bible other than just to Noah. Over the next few days we will be talking about some of your assignments, some of our assignments, and some other assignments listed in the Bible back when Jesus walked this earth.

Again I invite all of you to be sure you fact-check me using your Bibles. If you have questions, please ask them. After all, we are all working for Him, with a goal of getting to Heaven and getting the Word of God to others so they also can make a choice of where they want to spend eternity, Heaven or Hell, as they are the only two choices.

Dear Father in Heaven, I want to work for You each day. I, all too often, can remember the days I did not do that. Help me and all others who are asking right now to work for You, give us the knowledge, the wisdom, and the strength, and also the ability to love, to love all people regardless of race or color, or even if they hate us. Help us to love as You love. Also, Lord, help me to always remember that all the honor and glory goes to You for all I do. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now please go forth loving and serving Jesus with all your heart and carrying out your assignments from God. Love ya.

Pastor Dan